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museums hold festivals tribune photo graphers were kept running over the weekend covering a variety of events around the area large turnouts were recorded at both history in action at the pickering museum in brougham saturday and sunday and at the heritage festival saturday at the markham museum j pickering museum out good at markham pickering board chairman don mclean told the tribune that 700 attended saturday and about another 2000 on sunday it was bigger than last year he said the heritage festival according to markham museum curator john lunau brought in roughly 2000 despite the unpleasant weather saturday about 5000 were on hand for the uxbridge fair held friday saturday and sunday with a drop in attendance from the year before bemice park of the fair reports that the turnout was good this year for dairy cattle and that the exhibit building was terrific drawing some city vegetable gardeners to some events at the stouffville town park sunday night a mammoth corn roast was held to close off town house league baseball corn shucksters could hardly keep up with the demand as members of ball teams and their families dived into the grub following the con clusion of house league playoffs ais tack s held barrel races saturday featuring a total purse of 1000 three separate runs were held through the afternoon the history in action turnout according to mr mclean was so large it filled up the parking lot at the airpsrt information office across the road from the museum he said this years festival successfully attracted people from all across the town of pickering including the southern part as well as from the stouffville- goodwood area coming up next at the pickering museum will be an interdenomi national thanksgiving service oct 3 3 pm at the church building on the grounds at broueham i the piles of steaming corn set before the hungry hordes at the town park were never quite high enough to keep up with the demand here a fresh basket load evokes an ec static response from a young ball player the corn roast held at the town park was the crowning event of the weekend house league tournaments annegret lamure dean johnson left and his father doug who was stage manager at the heritage festival were somewhat perplexed as to where the gas tank was on this small engine mr johnson drew hann leans her horse grubworm into the corner as she rounds a laugh from thecrowd by exhorting the visiting the last barrel during the barrel races held at ais tack shop vandorf politicians to say a few words as few as rd saturday a good crowd turned out for the event and competition was possible keen john montgomery arch little looks on while laura reesor demonstrates the gee haw whimmy diddle that he made the toy has a propellor which spins one way when a stick is run up and down one side and spins in the opposite direction when rubbed on the other side mr little said he learned of the contraption which is almost as old as moses from simeon reesor who first saw them in the blue hills of kentucky mr reesor was displaying his carving at the markham heritage festival saturday john mairs left and steve churchill both of brougham served as helpers at history in action held saturday and sunday at the pickering museum in brougham they were demonstrating a pioneer method of making air fresheners pressing cloves into oranges and hanging them from a little sack pickering town clerkadministrator noel marshall tried his hand at this steam log splitter during history in action saturday at the pickering museum nearly 3000 attended the twody event udo hochgeschurz of gormley holding reins entered his team in the heavy drawing contest at uxbridge fair mr hochgeschurz had one of four teamsentered in the light weight class the stone boat started at 4700 pounds and the gormley team stayed in until the weight reached 7800 pounds the team was disqualified because they failed to pull the boat the required 20 feet in three trys it was a close loss though as they were only eight inches short of the mark some excitement was provided when doug coates of lindsay lost- his balance and the stone boat at 6400 pounds was pulled on top of his foot he was freed with no injuries v wendy dempster and her st bernard named brandy became the centre of attention after brandy was voted the largest dog at the fairs mutt show uxbridge t1mjournal publbhereditors harry stmpshbwn collecting the pertinent data from wendy wendys father is at right vx v f